On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 03:38:48PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > don't forget the most important aspect of mastering: a second pair > of ears, in a very good listening room. Correct. > take that out of the equation, and all that's left of mastering is > some parametric eq and (if you must) multiband compression. And I wonder why these shouldn't be done when mixing instead. In the 'old days' EQ and compression was required to adapt a mix to the limits of the distribution medium (vinyl in most cases). No such problem exists today. Why on earth should you re-EQ a mix ? If the mixing engineer did a good job (by carefully EQ-ing individual tracks), what chance do you have to improve this by acting on the mixed signal ? If he didn't, the way to correct for this is to redo the mix. Same for compression, it's much more effective and less intrusive when done on single tracks. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
